Process of making ammonium chlorid.



UNITED STATES PATENT onrroa.

v FRANCIS ARTHUR FREETH, OF GREAT CROSBY, AND HERBERT EDWIN COCKSEDGE, OF

LONDON, ENGLAND.

PROCESS OF MAKING AMMONIUM CHLORID.

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To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, FRANCIS ARTHUR tain' new and useful Improvements in the Manufacture of Ammonium Chlorid from Ammonium Sulfate and Common Salt, of which the following is a specification.

Our process consists in stirring together at a temperature of 103 C. or thereabout. equivalent quantities of sodium chlorid and ammonium sulfate mixed with that quantity of water ,Which just suflices to yield, after completion of the reaction, a solution saturate with regard to ammonium chlorid and sodium sulfate at- 103 C. or thereabout, until the reaction is complete, that is, until the whole of the sodium chlorid is transformed into ammonium chlorid. \Ve then separate by any well known means and at the temperature of the reaction, the sodium sulfate precipitated. To the liquor remaining after the separation, we add a small quantity of water, or saturated or partiall saturated ammonium chlorid solution, pre

erably wash-water from a' previous operation, amounting to less than 4 per cent. of the total volume of the liquid, and then cool to, 30 C. or thereabout, when we obtain a large yield of ammonium chlorid which is separated from the liquor by any well known means, and washed with water or ammonium chlorid solution to remove adhering mother liquor. It is then free, or practically free from sodium sulfate and other salts, and may be drained or dried as required. The recipitated sodium sulfate is washed until ree from adherent mother liquor, and is then also practically pure. The mother -liquo'r remalmng after separation of the ammonium chlorid may be used over again for a fresh operation after the required equivalent quantities of sodium chlorid and ammonium sulfate have been added.

We may in our process above described, employ, instead of solid sodium chlorid, a solution of sodium chlorid in water, for in stance natural brine,-either urified or unpurified, and after addition 0 the equivalent quantity of ammonium sulfate, evaporate the m xture before separation of the sodium sul-- fate precipitated, until-it-issaturated at 103" Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed January 17, 1910. Serial No. 538,584.

Patented Sept. 20, 1910.

If after a series of o erations it is found necessary to renew the iquor because of accumulation of impurities, or for'other reasons, we may proceed as follows: After cooling to 30 C. andseparatin the ammonium chlorid as above described,t e mother li nor is concentrated until it is just saturate at 103 C. with respect to ammonium chlorid. The sodium sulfate thrown out by the concentration is removed, and the liquor after addition of a small quantity of water -,is cooled to 30 C. to separate ammonium chlorid. By repeating this operation the ammonium chlorid may be separated from the liquors to any desired extent, and the ammonia remaining in the final liquors may be recovered by distillation with alkali or otherwise.

Fxample: About 97 parts of ammonium sulfate, 86 parts of sodium chlorid, and'100 parts of water are stirred at 103 C. until the reaction is complete, which may re uire an hour or more. The precipitated so mm sulfate is now removed, care being taken that the temperature does not fall during the operation: to the hot mother liquor is. then added about 6 parts of water or ammonium chlorid solution, and the whole is then cooled to 30 (1.: the ammonium chlorid is separated, washed and drained or dried in the usual way.

We declare that what we claim is i 1. The process for manufacturing pure, or nearly pure, ammonium chlorid, from ammonium sulfate and common salt, which consists in stirring together at a temperature of 103 degrees centigrade, or thereabout, equivalent quantities of ammonium sulfate and sodium chlorid with just sufficient quantity of water to yield after the reaction is completed a solution which is saturated with same with water or ammonium chlorid solution to remove the adhering mother liquor.

2. The process of obtaining pure, or nearly pure, ammonium chloridfrom ammonium sulfate and sodium chlorid, which consists in stirring together at a temperature of 103 consists in stirring together at a temperature of about 103 centigrade, equivalent quantities of ammonium sulfate and sodium chlorid with water, the 'two latter being in the form of natural brine, and evaporating the mix'- ture until the concentration of the solution is such that it is just saturated with ammonium chlorid and sodium'sulfate-at the tempera time at which the reaction was performed and was completed, continuing the stirring at 103 centigrade or thereabout until the wvhole (if the sodium chlorid has been con-t verted into ammonium chlorid, separating at the same tem erature the sodium sulfate precipitated, adc mg to the solution remaining a small quantity of Water and then cooling to about Centigrade and at this temperature separating the ammonium chlorid which precipitates, and washing the same withwater or ammonium chlorld solution to remove the adhering mother liquor;

4. The process of recovering ammonia from impure mother liquor produced in the manufacture of ammonium chlorid from ammonium sulfate and common'salt, which consists in concentrating the mother liquor from which the ammonium chlorid has been separated, at 30 centigrade or thereabout, until it is just saturated with ammonium chlorid at'a temperature of 103 icentigrade or thereabout, removing at that temperature the sodium sulfate thrown out by the concentration, adding to the solution remaining a small quantity of water, and then cooling it to 30 centi gr'ade or thereabout, separatingvthe ammonium chlorid precipitated at that temperature, washing the'same to re:

move the adhering mother liquor, and repeating this cycle of operations as often as maIybe necessary.

witness whereof, we have hereunto signed our names this 7th day of January 1910, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses:

' FRANCIS ARTHUR FREETH. HERBERT EDWIN COGKSEDGE. \V'itnesse's:

CHARLES LESLIE, Riemann W. \VILLIAMS. 

